412 Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.

Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.